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the c.i.a. now reports there have been no firm leads on him since before the attack of 9/11. why those leaked military documents suggest that might not be the whole story. box 2, planet blago. the jury has taken over. deliberations under way right now. plus why blago's own attorney says the former governor is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. we're live at the courthouse. box number 3, another laptop spying case. this time a student in pennsylvania says he was freaked out when he learned his school used his laptop to take 1,000 pictures of him. secretly. the brand-new details on this latest case are ahead unless breaking news changes everything on "studio b." developing now, in arizona,
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a federal judge blocked several key provisions of arizona's immigration law which is set to go into effect tomorrow. the whole thing is far from over but opponents of the law scored a preliminary victory. the ruling puts on hold certain parts of the law which were scheduling to go into effect midnight tonight. most of the law will remain as is but the judge blocked the section that requires police in the state of arizona to determine the legal status of a person reasonably suspected of being an illegal alien. same for the law requiring immigrants to carry legal papers at all times. that's out. wendell goler and william la jeunesse. what did the judge say today? >> the judge issued a major smackdown of governor jan brewer and arizona's efforts to control what it considers uncontrolled illegal immigration.
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she delivered a major victory to the president and democratic of justice under eric holder. the intent of the bill was to make it inwhohospitable for illegals and a policy to enforce. the judge gutted the intent of the bill. as you said, knocking out the controversial provisions prompting this statement moments ago from governor brewer saying, quote, today the federal government got relief from the courts not to do their job. at this point, what remains is the status quo. at midnight tonight police continue to do the job they've always had. >> shepard: can you explain what this means? >> well, yeah, what it means is that cops will continue, if you're a suspect and you're arrested, you'll be booked into jail and that's when your status as a illegal immigrant will be determined. they'll not be allowed, which they would have done under the bill, talk to you and the
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traffic stop and determine you might be here illegally and i ask you questions to determine that. they will not be able to do that. arizona did this because they feel the federal government is not enforcing -- it's illegal to be in the united states without permission. last year the latest figures available, the u.s. attorney out of california did not pursue one case. that's why arizona did this. the judge saying at this point stop, they can appeal but for all intents and purposes we're told it could take weeks or months. >> shepard: you mentioned appeals. it makes sense that would go to the 9th circuit in san francisco, the first stop? >> yeah, but before they do that they have to ask the judge to reconsider her proposal. she can drag that out and you have to ask permission of the 9th circuit if they'll take the case and according to judge napolitano, he said generally speaking on a preliminary injunction the federal courts defer to the trial judge and may leave the injunction the way it
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is. >> william la jeunesse live in the value of the sun. as you know, the obama administration originally filed this lawsuit seeking to get the arizona law overturned. so let's check in with wendell goler. >> officials here predicted the appeal of the arizona law would be upheld and they're pleased that the judge put on hold the parts of the law they most objected to but they also are well aware that law had widespread public support and the white house and congress basically dropped the ball by not passing a national immigration law that would have made the arizona law unnecessary. this is not being treated as a political victory. in fact the white house isn't commenting. it has deferred to the justice department which released the written statement saying, while we understand the frustration of arizona with the broken immigration system, a patchwork of state and local policies
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would seriously disrupt federal immigration enforcement and be counter productive. the statement says states can and do play a role in cooperating with the federal government in enforcement of immigration laws but they must do so within the constitutional framework. >> shepard: reaction from republicans today? >> reporter: well, disappointment and surprise as well. arizona senator jon kyl predicted before the ruling was handed down that the biggest part of the you law, the requirement police ask for proof of citizenship from people they stop for other offenses then suspect they're in the country illegally would stand. lamar smith says it was not a mixed ruling. >> she basically totally wiped out the three major provisions of the bill, the ability of the police to arrest people if they were in that -- apprehend people in the country illegally, the
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requirement if you're in the country and not a citizen, you have to carry documentation. >> reporter: the other major provision he didn't want to lose would have made it illegal for people in this country illegally to work here. as my colleague pointed out arizona governor jan brewer says it's not the end of the road and plans to appeal the ruling calling it a bump in the road. >> shepard: wendell goler live at the white house with the administration's reaction. there's more to be said. judge andrew napolitano will explain what the judge in arizona did today in practical legal terms and give us his opinion, with his legal expertise, on how it holds up to the 9th circuit court of appeals. one of the most liberal in the country in san francisco and then potentially i suppose to the supreme court. we'll hear from the judge. bottom of the hour just minutes from now. now the explosive revelations concerning leaked u.s. military documents released by the
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website wikileaks. according to rainstorming by the britain -- reporting by the britain newspaper, certain documents suggest osama bin laden was spotted along the afghan, pakistan border in 2006. interesting, really, because just last month the c.i.a. director testified that the agency has had no firm leads on ubl since, quote, the early 2000s. i'm sure there's a way around that. that said, at some time "the times of london" newspaper, owned by the parent company of this network, reports the lakes may have exposed afghan informant ants, julian assenga claims he has no idea who sent the documents. minutes ago assenga spoke to our judge napolitano and made some
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news. >> made a stunning claim, that being that he, assenga, gave all the documents to white house officials weeks ago according to assange. he never heard back from them. he claimed to the judge that he asked the white house if there was anything in the documents they did not want made public, any names they wanted redacted and he says he never heard back from the white house. now that is a staggering claim given we're heard robert gibbs, the white house spokesman, say from the podium the white house found out about the documents last week from news organizations. so somebody here clearly not telling the truth. >> shepard: all right. the attorney general says charges could be filed here. >> yeah. eric holder, the attorney general, is visiting egypt and spoke to reporters there today. quoting what he said, he said i
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deplore the release of classified information. it is not really in the national interest of the united states to have that kind of material leaked. the justice department is working with the department of defense with regard to an investigation concerning who the source of that leak or the source of those leaks might be. and certainly there may well be legal action taken against anybody who is found to have leaked those documents. >> shepard: jonathan, what is this about somebody spotting osama bin laden in 2006. why does it matter? >> this was contained, according to the guardian newspaper, in a threat report by the international security assistance force. apparently in the report, they noted osama bin laden was at a meeting along the afghan-pakistan border concerning suicide bombers in august of 2006. also with him was omar, the
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taliban leader, another of american's most wanted individuals in the war on terror. if they were there and we knew about it, there's a question as to why action wasn't taken to take them out. >> shepard: jonathan hunt, thank you. she'll be on the live -- he'll be on the live chat, foxnews.com/shep. it's clearly something upset about there. you can see the on the hunt lunge on -- link on the right. click the head at foxnews.com/shep. >> al qaeda as number two in command resurfacing. according to a transcript of a 47 minute recording, anwar al awlaki referenced the failed times square bombing and says more will come. the tape posted late yesterday includes a eulogy.
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he repeatedly praised the former number three in command to died in the u.s. air strike in pakistan. a deadly plane crash that -- that one recovery worker calls a very horrible scene. what officials say may have caused this passenger jet to go down and kill everybody onboard. plus the national disaster in the gulf of mexico began 100 years ago today. we're live in the region with new stories on the loss and recovery. we're covering all angles on our website, slide shows, facts and nor at foxnews.com. your place for news fair and balanced, 24/7, 365. "studio b" is back in 90 "studio b" is back in 90 seconds.
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tragic plane crash in pakistan. a jet carrying 152 people went down in the hills of islamabad. everybody onboard including two americans. an emergency officials called the situation heartbreaking. look at that's pictures. witnesses say the hillside is littered with the wreckage. investigators say it appears bad weather may have been a factor. a spokesman with airbus says the company offered to help in the investigation if wanted. 100 days since the start of our national disaster in the gulf of mexico and word today the feds are preparing a new criminal investigation into the
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oil spill. according to the reporting in the washington post newspaper today and on line, investigators will try to determine if cozy relationships between bp, transowingse ocean, halliburton and the regulators charged with overseeing the companies contributed to the disaster. was everybody just a little too close for safety? the paper reports the feds assembled a bp squad comprised of officials from the coast guard, the environmental protection agency and others. this as' see new evidence the oil slick appears to be disappearing from site more quickly than predicted it would. this is with what a it looked like in early june. this is the spill several weeks later we can see and this, two days ago. it is unclear whether all the cleanup efforts are responsible, whether the oil is disappearing underneath the waves, whether it sunk to the bottom -- no one knows or they won't tell us.
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the damage to local businesses and families will not vanish as quickly as the site. jonathan serrie in grand isle. bp hired fishermen to help with the clean up but is that enough to keep them on their feet financially and otherwise? >> reporter: for individual owners of boats like these, this represents a temporary fix but they represent just one part of the seafood industry. >> we're not getting no help. a guy like tony would get $18 million and a new job and i have no money and no job. >> reporter: dean blanchard worries how long it will take to convince american consumers the seafood is safe to eat. >> shepard: we're left with speculation in the gulf south about long term affects of the chemicals. we know what the government says about the chemical dispersants but we don't know.
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>> that's right. it's been used in record amounts and they don't know what the long term impact may be. local residents worry about not only the environment and their health but also whether the it dispersants suppressed oil under the surface that remains hidden. >> jonathan serrie, great work again. >> as i mentioned, a special extended coverage of the disaster on our website. the team put together a collection of stories, slide shows and maps. look for the link 100 days, a disasterrer that changed america on the front page. that is at foxnews.com. check it out. the powerful congressmen charlie rangel is waiting for the opportunity to respond to ethics charges, expected to be laid out tomorrow. they're serious. today we're examining whether the congressmen will go through
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with the trial or in the end, make a deal. what all of this could mean for democrats in november for the republican push toward november. it matters. fox news contributor juan williams. plus the legal battle over arizona's new immigration law. the fight could go all the way to the supreme court but there's no way to know. our own judge andrew napolitano will talk about the next step, what it means for arizona and the rest of us, that's all ahead on a busy day on "studio b." wp we can fly out to see family. ♪ and we canook out more with friends. my card lets me work out more. ♪ and ours lets us eat out more. aarp helps us do our favorite thing.
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>> shepard: 20 minutes after 3:00 in new york. the ethics investigation involving charlie rangle. the democrat saying he looks forward to addressing allegations in frontal of a
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house committee tomorrow. today he said little about reports his lawyers may be close it a deal to settle his case. the congressmen is accused to multiviolations from fundraising and income properties. he says the lingering questions will be answered. >> as pleasant as it may appear to be tomorrow, you can not be asking for a hearing and a discussion of the facts for close to two years without feeling some sense of relief that at long last we can talk about the allegations. >> congressmen rangle has yet to hear from his lawyer on a possible settlement. time for wednesdays with juan. how about that? >> that was pretty cool. >> i like the brown coat. >> thank you. >> shepard: he's a contributor for fox news and a friend of program. he's in trouble.
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>> he is. last time we went to a public ethics panel hearing it was jim traffic cam in 2002. what a scene it was. he was up on charges of bribery and ends up going to the hoosgow, to jail. that didn't help. it's bad news not only for democrats and you think about the political consequences as we go to 2010 in the fall, everybody's going to watch. it's going to be on tv. >> shepard: this is a powerful man. he's in control of the money. >> right. >> shepard: that makes it harder, doesn't it? >> well, you know what? it raises the bar -- >> shepard: the fact he's black makes it hard too. >> it makes it harder for everybody involved. he's not only a dean of the congressional black caucus, he's dean of the democrats in the house. he's been there 40 years. he's a nice man. he has a reputation of 40 years
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coming from harlem, working up to the chief tax writer for our nation. the fact he's lost than and he's down to this, he's down to a sense he doesn't think he did anything wrong. and the people who are on the ethics panel, zoey loveman, nancy pelosi, they're saying charlie, you got a problem. he doesn't believe it and that's why he says tomorrow, he gets his opportunity to make his case that he did nothing wrong. >> shepard: you know washington very well. how much of this is about congressman, people in power are treated like people in power everywhere they go. how much, you start thinking -- i'm not talking about congressman rangle but in general, they think of themself something above everyone else. >> i always think the people i deal with in washington, politicians are ego centric, ego
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maniacal. i never thought that about charlie rangle but here's the deal, he's charged with leaving his classic mercedes in the house garage and not paying attention and not realizing it was a violation of rules. or he had hundreds of thousands of dollars in a deposit in a bank and he says i forgot to report it on my financial disclosure statement. or i got these rent controlled apartments in harlem and not saying wait a second, how come you have four of them. >> shepard: you can't do that in new york. in this city, rent control is a big deal. >> big deal. all of a sudden you see you're right, someone said it's like you have a sense -- one of my aides forgot to handle that. wait a second, you're responsible. it's your money and it looks bad for you and now for the democrats in the country to have this scene on national it of. >> shepard: that's why you wonder if there's a last-minute deal.
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do you think it's possible they'll say let's make this go away. >> boy, this pressure right now, chris van holland, in charge of the democrat's effort to keep house seats, has met with him. jim clyburn, a fellow black democrat has met with him. his lawyers are talking to the legal staff of the ethics committee but it comes back to what you said. charlie rangle doesn't think he did anything wrong. he thinks it's the way business is done and why are people picking on him. he says he's looking forward to thursday. he says if thursday it better than being lynched. all of a sudden he's bringing -- you think what's going on. >> shepard: lynched? that's a strong word. >> yeah, racial word. you said it's going for harder. >> shepard: absolutely. >> it's a sign of his desperation. >> shepard: is there -- wear out of time but i wonder if there's someone with a strong enough voice and enough power to go charlie, man, let's work it out.
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it's hurting your party. >> he's been there 40 years, ice 80 years old. it would have to be the president of the united states and i'm not sure he could convince him. >> shepard: it might have been something a certain senator from massachusetts might have done. >> exactly. rangle is supposed to have a birthday party in new york and people like michael bloomberg, schumer, the senior people in the new york delegation are saying maybe we won't have the party because charlie, you're in trouble. >> shepard: interesting to watch. tomorrow could be fascinating. >> right in the middle of this show, "studio b." >> shepard: wednesday with juan, thank you. >> nice to be with you. >> shepard: a nascar team owner is in intensive care after a plane crash in the state of wisconsin. and arizona's immigration law -- we'll get back to analysis with a breakdown of judge andrew napolitano, the judge's ruling. get the picture on what the ruling means, whether it might go to the 9th circuit for
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>> shepard: it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. update the coverage much arizona's immigration law and today's judgment that blocks the mayor provisions in the law. keep in mind the law was supposed to go into effect tonight midnight, the ruling puts on hold certain parts of the law, notably the section
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that requires officers to check emigration status and immigrants to carry legal papers. we're down to procedural stuff and technical stuff. the big issues are out. with us to break it down, fox news junior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano, author of "freedom watch" on "fox business" network. >> no surprises here, the judge followed the standard law by the supreme court, an area given by the constitution to the federal government, the states can't intercede in relations with foreign countries and persons. but if i may, a little on the procedure, this is what lawyers and judges call a preliminary injunction, fancy phrase for we want you to stop the enforcement of the law while you study it and decide if it's unconstitutional. this is not a final determination that this law is gutted. it is a preliminary
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determination that the state may not enforce it. there will be a trial on it. the judge could change her mind and decide this is not that bad after hearing testimony. she could decide other aspects of it are worthy of being enjoined as well. so this has a long road ahead of it. i suspect the state of arizona will attempt to appeal this to the 9th circuit court of appeals. i say attempt because you have to ask for permission to file an appeal like this. not because it's the middle of the summer but it's a preliminary ruling. appellate courts don't interfere with trial judge's preliminary rulings, but the guts of the statute have been removed and cannot be enforced in arizona tomorrow. >> shepard: if this were to go to the 9th circuit, and that's a long way away, right? a lot to be done. >> there is. they have to make applications and ask for permission and ask to hear it. it could happen in a couple weeks.
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you and i talked about the judge do enjoined the moratorium on drilling in the gulf of mexico. he was affirmed by the 9th 9th circuit -- excuse me, the 5th circuit, in new orleans, three weeks later. they could hear this in relatively short order. going to the supreme court will take a long time because it won't look at it until the trial judge has a trial and makes a final as opposed to a preliminary determination on the constitution alt. she's not going to have the trial number christmastime. >> shepard: the 9s circuit's history? >> extremely liberal. headquartered in san francisco. covers the 15 western most states of the united states. 33 judges. they have to find three not on vacation this time of year. most likely to affirm what the trial judge did today. >> shepard: that would potentially allow them the process to look at it. >> the supreme court doesn't
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take cases in that posture. it would take it after it was resolved in the trial court and appellate court. the only issue before the trial court was this motion by the government to enjoin the enforcement of it immediately. not to declare it permanently that et it's unconstitutional. >> shepard: this is all politics. i want to know about wikileaks. you interviewed julian assange, the founder of wikileaks, the site releasing the documents leading to the discussion about our complete failures in afghanistan and thoughts that we need to get out of afghanistan. he told you something that i considered to be a blockbuster bit of news. >> that's that wikileaks presented the documents, over 100,000 pages, to the white house. >> shepard: when? >> weeks before they were released. >> shepard: maybe about the time they gave it to the -- to the
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guardian and "new york times." >> correct. is there anything that can't be released, that you want redacted, that you question the authenticity? the white house response was silence. >> shepard: but we know that he -- it's his contention that the white house got them and knew they got them. it's not like he -- >> yes. that's what he told me. >> shepard: the white house hasn't said anything about this. the line is this might be damaging. the standard line from every pressroom in the history of white houses is this could damage national security. >> the white house is down playing it but they should look at the vote of the house of representatives voting against the appropriation to fund the war in afghanistan. people in the president's own party. they took the vote three days after the wikileaks documents came out. >> shepard: if they did do that as julian assange insists. we haven't gotten a response from the white house but we're trying to, if the white house
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got the documents in advance and was given the opportunity to say something and they didn't, they don't have a lot of room to talk. >> even in the bush administration, when the "new york times" want today reveal things, the administration negotiated with the white house, talked the times out of releasing proper names. >> shepard: the bush administration says the times cooperated. >> the obama administration made no such effort and couldn't have cared less according to julian assange. >> you're people are working to get in touch with the white house. judge, congratulations. >> the interview will be 10:00 saturday morning on the "fox business." >> on "freedom watch." >> yes. judge napolitano's break outprogram. here right here in the building. >> yes, they are. >> we're on 80 floors of a 44 building and they're friends and neighbors. if you don't check out "fox business," you should. it is not a cookie cutter of any of the other ones.
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possibly need surgery but was able to walk away from the crash. he crashed a plane in alabama a few years ago. >> new details on another laptop spaying case. did i mention we brought you this story early in the year. a crippling class action lawsuit over the ability to remotely turn on laptop cameras. the school said they did it to find lost or stolen computers. now another student is filing suit and this student says the school took more than 1,000 pictures secretly of him after he left his laptop at cooking class. it happened in lower marion, pennsylvania, 12 miles north and west of philly. trace gallagher has this on the other side of the country. tell us about the case. >> it involves 18-year-old jaleel hasan, a graduate of lower marion high school, bound
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the school at that time admitted she should have a better policy in place to make sure kids were not spied upon. >> shepard: they ought to stay out of that bedrooms. ae it's a good rule. stay out of the bedroom. roll it. >> planet blago, spinning today. they're holding their breath. the case in the hands of jury and even his own lawyer says our blago is a goof. and of course he broke his promise to testify. we hate that lawyer, calling our fair-haired man a goof. is blago headed to the hoosgow? legal experts debate when blago returns in 3 minutes. ifs are
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>> shepard: planet blago. the natives of awaiting a verdict. the case is in the hands of a jury. blago pleaded not guilty to trying to sell president obama's senate seat. his attorney went on an hour and a half rant. sam amd, jr., no relation to the beer, argued it was a negotiation, not an extortion. he got very >> when you deliberate, think,
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what would sam say about this? that's awesome! afterward he told reporters how confident he really is. >> yes, definitely. not optimistic i feel in my gut. 12-0, not guilty. that's how i feel about it. >> shepard: jurors have to weigh all that when hours of wiretapped conversation and the prosecutors argument there's no way our blago, the former prosecutor himself, was unaware of what he was doing. to the legal panel, with us, former prosecutor and fox news legal analyst arthur aidala and drew fund ling. how dare that lawyer talk about our blago, not the sharpest knife in the door. blago ought to slice him up. >> that's what you do to get credibility with the jury, to indicate this guy, let's -- >> shepard: that how it works? >> say it like it is here.
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he ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but i was lucky enough to call a friend today who happened to be at the trial and heard 9 closing arguments. he said the prosecutors gave a real federal protection closing, meaning they focused on the details of the facts. they didn't go with emotional pleas. details, details, details. and they asked juries to listen to the wiretaps and you'll see the judge instructed them, they can make inferences from what he said and that says he was asking money. >> shepard: judge napolitano doesn't think the facts are there. >> in the closing arguments there was a battle, about this big jury instruction number 61. really, jury instruction 61, if i can break it down for our viewers, is simply this: the defense talked about the furs half of it, which is by itself, if you're a government official
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and accept a campaign contribution by somebody you're doing business with, that's not extortion. the prosecution says you didn't finish it. the if you receive or attempt to receive money from something you're doing business with and you think that you're going to get a benefit from it, that's extortion. that's where the battleground is, shep. that's where so many tapes are going to be what the defense has too deal with. that's why they have no choice but to say look, he's not the sharpest guy around because they can't have the jurors think that he's smart. if he's smart, maybe he's exchanging money for benefits. >> when the judge are instructs the jury, you can draw reasonable inferences from the tapes. he doesn't have to say i want money for this. they can use his words and the
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tone. the judge says listen to the tapes themself to say he either got or was attempting to get a benefit for what he was doing. that was in violation of the law. >> shepard: that word that drew mentioned there, that word, if you think. if you think that you may get out of this, he doesn't have to say it specifically. if that is the standard and that is the bar, there might be observers who suggest they met it. >> well, here's the -- the problem is, what the judge is talking about, judge napolitano is talking about regarding the facts, is the battleground for the patrol prosecution is so muh conjecture. what was blago thinking about? what was in his mind? that's were where the prosecution struggles, getting the jurors -- >> shepard: we know he can fly all over the world. look at that, what else can he
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>> shepard: firefighters in california battling two massive fires a few hours north of los angeles. the biggest the so-called bull fire has burned more than 1500 acres destroyed a dozen buildings. tim this is kind of bad, right? >> reporter: yeah fresh off the l.a. bureau. 2300 evacuees. good news, the bigger one contained to 25%. 1400 acres. 800 firefighters on scene. the california governor on his
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way. the bad news is, it is early afternoon there and the winds are about to pick up. this fire erupted tuesday morning 70 miles north of los angeles. it thenens an entire town. emergency 2300 evacuees, we are keeping a close eye on this. >> shepard: thank you, sir. >> national football league warning players about the risk of concussions by making posters to put in front of the kind of thing would you expect in middle school. now folks at the "wall street journal" came up with possible posters you could make for other sports. hockey, dental trauma. it reads: there are things you can use to stop a puck other than your face. and the tooth fairy does not exist. baseball: desire to update twitter while your team is on offense with a tag line, we are paying you,
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please try to act like you care. there are more on the paper's website wsj.com. >> bear alert! it may be the best bear video ever.k)á you've got three more minutes, just sit there for a minute. >> announcer: host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? is a bird in the hand worth 2 in the bush? appraiser: well you rarely see them in this good of shape. appraiser: for example the fingers are perfect.
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a big momma bear doing whatever she can to save her little cub. look at this. look at this. the video shot by a family in anchorage. showing the momma trying to free her cub from that fishing net. see hit there? look at that. the man who captured it said the little bear probably smelled salmon in the net. there was solomon in the -- salmon in the net at one point. look at the momma bear saving the baby. after a brief struggle and help from a pick-up truck momma pulled that baby bear free. look at that. a little bear hug to make sure everything was all right. look at that we think that baby wanted a ride on the trampoline. you know he did! every bear knows about this trampoline now and every bear wants a ride! ahh! that bear was fine from that incident. it

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